Tuesday, February 2, 2016

So you want to buy House Leadership?

McCall ‘s Prosperity PAC

by Al Gerhart

McCall ‘s Prosperity PAC was the vehicle used to bundle cash from lobbyists and other campaign committees to prevent the lobbyists from maxing out on contributions to a candidate. State law prohibits campaign donations to a single legislature past $5000.00 but once McCall laundered the donations through his PAC the money could be directed back to candidates, an effective if not ethical method of bypassing state law.

As of the third quarter they had raised around $52,000, around $31,000 from the legislators in the voting block and $20,000.00 from McCall’s own family. Another $16,000.00 was raised from mostly lobbyists in the fourth quarter.

Here are some of the 3rd qtrtransactions of McCall’s Prosperity PAC, in 2015:

Receipts:
BARBARA MCCALL

CHARLES MCCALL

CHARLES MCCALL

STEPHANIE MCCALL

Distributions:

BOBBY CLEVELAND

CALDWELL FOR STATE HOUSE

FRIENDS OF CHUCK STROHM

FRIENDS OF JAMES LEEWRIGHT

FRIENDS OF JEFF COODY

FRIENDS OF JOHN MICHAEL

FRIENDS OF JOHN PFEIFFER 2014

FRIENDS OF KEVIN WALLACE

FRIENDS OF MICHAEL ROGERS

FRIENDS OF SCOOTER PARK

MARK LEPAK

JOHN PAUL JORDAN

WILLIAM CASEY MURDOCK

$5000.00

$5000.00

$5000.00

$5000.00

$1000.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

$2500.00

The attempt to bring legislators into the McCall camp failed after details of sketchy campaign donations from the McCall PAC effort to subvert the House Speaker Designate race was exposed by the Sooner Tea Party newsletter. House members refused to sign pledge cards at the Republican Caucus meeting a few days later, derailing what was rumored to be a done deal for McCall as Speaker Designate. And as it turns out McCall was never even close to having the numbers needed to win the Speaker Designate race and has even fewer votes after falling on his face last month.